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The Crossville Mission Bible Training Center is hosting its annual production, “Why Christmas” on Saturday, December 18th.
Program Overseer Chassidy Swicegood that mission center is a discipleship training program that is geared towards people with drug and alcohol abuse problems. She said that they help people find what’s missing in their lives.
“At the end of the day all of us are missing a relationship with God and with Jesus Christ and that’s what we train people to do,” Swicegood said. “The drug and alcohol abuse are kind of just a symptom of what’s truly been missing and just train people to live again”
Swicegood the play is performed every year in all of the 19 mission center locations. She said that the play depicts different houses at Christmas time and follows one character as they search for the true meaning behind Christmas, which the character finally discovers is the birth of Jesus Christ.
“I think that especially in today’s culture we’ve lost what Christmas is all about,” Swicegood said. “It has become so commercialized and about what we can receive when really Christmas is about what has been given to us freely which is the salvation of Jesus Christ.”
Swicegood said that the message she hopes audience members take away is two-fold.
“It’s the obvious, what the Gospel is about and what gives we were given,” Swicegood said. “And then it’s also an amazing opportunity for the community to see what this organization does for lost and desperate people.”
Swicegood said that the play is free to the public, but donations are appreciated. The show begins at 7 p.m. with a reception following.
